Meet Australia's 2024 "Rising WiDS Stars"
(WiDS = Women in Data Science)
It's been said, "you can't be what you can't see".
As part of International Women's Day 2024 celebrations, the ADSN introduced you to Australia's Rising Stars in Data Science.
We hope these 25 women will inspire the next generation of young scientists and data scientists and show there is a place for gender diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.
For five hours, we featured these Data Scientists from all over the country. We recorded their talks and you can see each one individually.
Just click on the profile pictures below to see the videos of the talks.
Dr Meera Radhakrishnan
Pranita Shrestha
Dr Shila Ghazanfar
Dr Fonti Kar
Tamara Orth
Lana Tikhomirov
Dr Guanjin Brenda Wang
Vidushani Dhanawansa
Dr Mengyun Susan Luo
Joanna Salerno
Dr Wafaa Mansoor
Dr Parinaz Mehdipour
Charlotte Patterson
Dr Shikha Anirban
Dr Xiaolin Sun
Vimukthini Jayalath
Dr Maeve McGillycuddy
Dr Aneesha Bakharia
Dr Mahbuba Afrin
Rachael Isphording
Dr Virginie Perlo
Soujanya Narayana
A/Prof Jie Yin
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Dr Kristen Hunter
Sarah James
Passiona Cottee
WiDS @ Australian Data Science Network is independently organized by the Australian Data Science Network to be part of the mission to increase participation of women in data science and to feature outstanding women doing outstanding work.
Our 2024 Rising WiDS Stars
(in alphabetical order)
- Dr Mahbuba Afrin: Lecturer, Curtin University
- Dr Shikha Anirban: Lecturer, Murdoch University
- Dr Aneesha Bakharia: Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland
- Passiona Cottee: Associate Director, The Cabinet Office NSW
- Vidushani Dhanawansa: PhD Candidate, Monash Data Futures Institute
- Dr Shila Ghazanfar: Lecturer, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
- Dr Kristen Hunter: Lecturer in Statistics & Data Science, UNSW
- Rachael Isphording: PhD Candidate, UNSW Climate Change Research Centre
- Dr Sarah James: Data Scientist, Fivecast
- Vimukthini Jayalath: PhD Candidate, University of South Australia
- Dr Fonti Kar: Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNSW
- Dr Mengyun (Susan) Luo: Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health
- Dr Wafaa Mansoor: Lecturer, Murdoch University
- Dr Maeve McGillycuddy: Statistical Consultant, Stats Central at UNSW
- Dr Parinaz Mehdipour: Biostatistician, University of Melbourne
- Soujanya Narayana: PhD Candidate, University of Canberra
- Tamara Orth: PhD Candidate, QUT Centre for Data Science
- Charlotte Patterson: PhD Candidate, QUT Centre for Data Science
- Dr Virginie Perlo: Research Fellow, QUT Centre for Data Science
- Dr Meera Radhakrishnan: Research Fellow, UTS Data Science Institute
- Joanna Salerno: Master of Data Analytics student, QUT
- Pranita Shrestha: PhD Candidate, Monash Data Futures Institute
- Dr Xiaolin Sun: Research Fellow, Monash University Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics
- Lana Tikhomirov: PhD Candidate, Australian Institute of Machine Learning
- Dr Guanjin (Brenda) Wang: Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University
Invited Speaker:
- Associate Professor Jie Yin: University of Sydney Business Analytics
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